Come on people, no comments? Your going to make me think you don’t like us. OK, not really but don’t make me resort to making aliases and comments on my own posts. People have told me that they like the blog and they find it fun to read, well you could also say it in the comments so that other people know. SPREAD THE WORD! Tell me what concerts you have seen, what your favorite song is and think of it, you won’t just be telling me you will be telling the world that you are a true blue fan! I know you’re out there.

We are just eating dinner as we wait to start our performance for the Hospice Muskoka “Summer Sizzler” Charity Benefit at the J.W. Marriot Rosseau Resort & Spa. Boy, that’s a mouthful! This is the second year we have participated and it’s great. It’s a beautiful setting here at The Rosseau. We are set up on the Lakeview Lawn. The name says it all. It is right behind the main building up on a bluff that overlooks Lake Rosseau. The weather is perfect! It’s nice and warm but not to humid. Maybe next time I’m here it will be as a guest so I can just kick back and chill.

I’m sitting here at my computer more than a little disappointed. Tonight’s concert for the Festival of the Arts in Huntsville has been canceled. Normally we would already be setting up, but not this evening. Something about a tornado watch. It seems hard to believe as I am looking out my window and the weather is actually starting to clear but that too is part of the forecast, the calm before the storm, I guess. It makes since. We really can’t risk being caught out in the kind of storm that is predicted, besides who would come? A lot of us really like this performance it is such a nice setting. The park at the town docks makes for a perfect little open air amphitheater and the audience is just great. Oh well, it is not to be this year. Here are a few pictures from last year.

Yes, that’s right. It was us you heard on CBC Radio the other day! This past Saturday a short radio documentary was aired on CBC Radio on there program “The World This Weekend.” When I say short I mean short it was just over 4 minutes. To be quite honest I have no clue how they managed to trim down all the interviews and pack so much into 4 minutes, but it was pretty cool for us. Last month when we were at a performance at Rosseau one of the CBC Radio producers came prepared to get info and sound bites to put this thing together. If you missed it you can listen to it here or download it from iTunes. If you go to iTunes look for the podcast of The World This Weekend Saturday August 20, 2011. It’s a 30 minute program and our clip is near the end. After you have heard it leave me a comment and let me know how you think it turned out.

Last weekend we had one of the best weekends ever! The Dwight & Kearney performances are perennial favorites for us but this year beat all the other years we have done. What’s not to love about perfect weather, a long weekend, awesome music and fireworks?!?! This year we tried something a little bit different. We started our performance at the normal times, around 6 PM. (There is something really nice about not having to wake up at 4 AM in order to set-up for a performance, maybe someday we will have roadies.) We did the normal sets and then when it was nice and dark we decided we were a little tired of the regular lights we use and BOOM! off went the lights and on with the black lights. That’s right, if you weren’t there you really missed out! We had new shirts that have fluorescent design on them and everything white was GLOWING! It was AWESOME! Talk about a pumped up crowd and when the audience is like that I can’t explain what it feels like to be one of the people giving that to them. Let’s just say if you think you are having fun watching/listening/dancing to our music you have no idea. We have 10 times more fun doing it!

In Dwight there are usually lots of people by the last set and when you look out over the water there are tons of lights from boats. I have had people tell me that the music sounds amazing when you are out on the water because of the way the sound carries. In Kearney I was playing along having a good time and I could see that we had quite a few people inside and around the tent but I had no idea how many people were actually there until afterwards when I was watching the fireworks and they lit up the sky. You could see that there were hundreds of people sitting and standing on the side of the hill just below where we were performing. I was blown away by how many people showed up.